Health Policy

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Volume 155, issue C, 2025

Identification of health-related needs: The needs examination, evaluation and dissemination (NEED) assessment framework

Charline Maertens de Noordhout, Muriel Levy, Rani Claerman, Mats de Jaeger, Robby De Pauw, Laurence Kohn, Claudia Schönborn and Irina Cleemput

Private equity expansion and impacts in united states healthcare

Lynn Unruh and Thomas Rice

Identifying the most effective policies for minimising inappropriate use of antibiotics: A replicability study using three WHO datasets

Kathleen A. Holloway and David Henry

The impact of eliminating out-of-pocket payments for medicines on low-income households: a controlled interrupted time series analysis using linked administrative data from British Columbia

Kartik Sharma, Lucy Cheng, Colin R. Dormuth, Kimberlyn M. McGrail, Mary A. De Vera, Fiona Clement, Rita K. McCracken, Muhammed Mamdani and Michael R. Law

Forgone Care of doctor's visits in Germany – Results from three cross-sectional surveys

Christine Haeger, Raphael Kohl, Julie L. O'Sullivan and Susanne Schnitzer

Long-term public healthcare burden associated with intimate partner violence among Canadian women: A cohort study

Gabriel John Dusing, Beverley M. Essue, Patricia O'Campo and Nicholas Metheny

The introduction of maximum reimbursement prices for digital health applications in Germany in 2022: Current developments

Hendrikje Rödiger, Reinhard Busse and Cornelia Henschke

Promoting outpatient medication safety in Finland: A mid-term review of a national medication safety programme for community pharmacies (2021–2026)

Emilia Mäkinen, Tiina Koskenkorva, Anna-Riia Holmström, Marja Airaksinen, Marianne Kuusisto, Henna Kyllönen, Anna Schoultz and Charlotta Sandler

Understanding the impact of minimum staff level policies on the ward nursing team: Insights from a qualitative research study conducted in Germany

Felix Miedaner, Werner Barbara, Bernhard Roth and Linda Metzner

Strengthening diagnostic services in Latin America requires regional leadership, sustainable funding, and enhanced data sharing

Andres Moreira-Soto, Nils Gade, Bert Hoffmann and Jan Felix Drexler

Multiple job holding and its influencing factors among Belgian nurses: A cross-sectional study

Senne Vleminckx, Anke Sevenans, Manal Bouchatta, Ive Verbeeck, Erik Franck and Filip Haegdorens

Factors influencing the experience of empowerment in Flemish (proxy) budget holders: A regression analysis

Eva Pattyn, Paul Gemmel, Ruben Willems, Susan Lagaert and Jeroen Trybou

Medicare austerity reforms and patient out-of-pocket costs: The experience from Australian cancer patients

Maryam Naghsh-Nejad, Kees Van Gool, Phil Haywood and Jane Hall

Quantitative trend analysis of well-established use mutual recognition and decentralised products indicates codified disharmonisation in the European Economic Area

Péter Szabó

Participatory policy processes in a black box? Stakeholder interviews about the development of Germany´s national nutrition strategy

Marike Andreas, Anna K. Kaiser and Falko F. Sniehotta

Rapid evaluation of the NHS Recovery Support Programme (RSP) in England: Implementing intensive national improvement support for challenged healthcare providers and systems

Maartje Kletter, Stephanie Gillibrand, Elaine Harkness, Jo Dumville and Paul Wilson

Framing the loss: Preferences for vaccine hesitancy and gender effect in France and Italy

Anna Rinaldi, Pierfrancesco Dellino and Massimo Paradiso

Physicians’ responses to time pressure: Experimental evidence on treatment quality and documentation behaviour

Claudia Souček, Tommaso Reggiani and Nadja Kairies-Schwarz

Commentary on “The learning rehabilitation system: Strengthening an intersectoral strategy to improve functioning of an ageing population” by Bickenbach et al

Nicola Manocchio, Concetta Ljoka, Valerio Ferdinandi, Lucia Cicchi and Calogero Foti

Global health and care worker migration requires a global response

Ellen Kuhlmann, Michelle Falkenbach, Tiago Correia, Niamh Humphries, Eleanor Hutchinson, Gareth H Rees, Marius-Ionut Ungureanu, Tomas Zapata and Julia Lohmann

Twenty years evaluating the health impact of urban policies in the city of Barcelona

María-José López, Katherine Pérez, Xavier Continente and Carme Borrell

How does OTC drugs consumption relate to prescribed drugs and health care consultations in Europe?

Aida Isabel Tavares

From policy to practice: Rolling out the clinical nurse specialist role in Portugal

Mário Amorim-Lopes, Sofia Cruz-Gomes, Elisa Doldi and Bernardo Almada-Lobo

Hospital resilience in the Face of Covid-19 in France: A multilevel analysis of the impact of past practice quality on cancer surgery resumption

Noémie Malléjac and Zeynep Or

Time to completion of conditions required by Health Canada after approving new drugs: A cohort study

Joel Lexchin

Volume 154, issue C, 2025

The 2017 reform to medical specialty training in Czechia: Exploring student career preferences

Lenka Šlegerová, Lucie Bryndová, Petr Michenka and Martin Kočí

Needs of non-pharmacological management versus sedation or general anesthesia for dental treatment in older adults with special needs: A systematic review

Kamheang Vacharaksa, Ticha Thongrakard and Anjalee Vacharaksa

Health economic evaluation evidence of interventions for peripartum depression: A scoping review

Gülcan Tecirli, Mehtap Çakmak Barsbay, Greg Sheaf, Nurettin Öner, Ana Ganho-Ávila, Roser Palau-Costafreda, Inês Ribeiro, Eva Lassemo, Elizabeth Camacho, Pedro Lopes Ferreira and Annette Bauer

Avoidable visits to UK emergency departments from the patient perspective: A recursive bivariate probit approach

Chiara Calastri, John Buckell and Romain Crastes dit Sourd

Unveiling patterns and drivers of immigrant health integration policies: A model-based cluster and panel data analysis in MIPEX countries

Cheng Chow

Immigrants’ self-perceived barriers to healthcare: A systematic review of quantitative evidence in European countries

Chiara Allegri, Elisa Barbiano di Belgiojoso and Stefania Maria Lorenza Rimoldi

Public versus private access in the Italian NHS - The use of propensity score matching to provide more insight on the increasing adoption of voluntary health insurance

Elenka Brenna

Determinants and associated costs of unmet healthcare need and their association with resource allocation. Insights from Finland

Lien Nguyen and Unto Häkkinen

Volume 153, issue C, 2025

The development of a discrete choice experiment: Investigating pharmacy selection in New Zealand

James Nind, Carlo A. Marra, Shane Scahill, Damien Mather and Alesha Smith

Classifying the WHO European countries by noncommunicable diseases and risk factors

Tevfik Bulut

How and why do health system factors influence general dentists’ participation in publicly funded, contracted primary dental care services: A realist review

Paul Leavy, Sophie Mulcahy Symmons, David Mockler, Pádraic Fleming, Blánaid Daly, John Ford and Sara Burke

Understanding private equity-owned HHAs in the U.S.: A performance comparison between pe-owned and non-pe-owned agencies

Mohammad Ishtiaque Rahman

Inequality in COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and uptake: A repeated cross-sectional analysis of COVID vaccine acceptance and uptake in 13 countries

Zachary DV Abel, Laurence SJ Roope, Raymond Duch, Sophie Cole and Philip M Clarke

Regulatory approaches towards AI Medical Devices: A comparative study of the United States, the European Union and China

Daolu Tang, Xuezhi Xi, Yong Li and Meiling Hu

Health care provider payment schemes and their changes since 2010 across nine Central and Eastern European countries – a comparative analysis

Costase Ndayishimiye, Marzena Tambor, Daiga Behmane, Antoniya Dimova, Alina Dūdele, Aleksandar Džakula, Barbora Erasti, Péter Gaál, Triin Habicht, Pavel Hroboň, Liubove Murauskienė, Tamás Palicz, Silvia Gabriela Scîntee, Lenka Šlegerová, Cristian Vladescu and Katarzyna Dubas-Jakóbczyk

Volume 152, issue C, 2025

Development of an organizational typology of interprofessional primary care teams in Quebec, Canada: A multivariate analysis

Maria Alejandra Rodriguez-Duarte, Pamela Fernainy, Lise Gauvin, Géraldine Layani, Marie-Eve Poitras, Mylaine Breton, Claire Godard-Sebillotte, Catherine Hudon, Janusz Kaczorowski, Yves Couturier, Anaïs Lacasse, Marie-Thérèse Lussier, Cristina Longo and Nadia Sourial

Variation in day surgery rates across Irish public hospitals

Aoife Brick, Brendan Walsh, Theano Kakoulidou and Harry Humes

Gendered employment trajectories and later life health in liberal regime countries: A quantitative study in the United States, England, Switzerland and Chile

Ignacio Cabib, Ariel Azar, Isabel Baumann, Andr Biehl, Laurie Corna, Eric Mautz and Martina Yopo-Díaz

Equity in healthcare financing: A review of evidence

Emilia Luyten and Sandy Tubeuf

A good start for all children: Integrating early-life course medical and social care through Solid Start, the Netherlands’ nationwide action programme

Eric A.P. Steegers, Jeroen N. Struijs, Angela J.M. Uijtdewilligen and Tessa J. Roseboom

Caregiver preferences and willingness-to-pay for home care services for older people with dementia: A discrete choice experiment in the Milan metropolitan area

Michela Meregaglia, Simone Manfredi, Eleonora Perobelli, Andrea Rotolo, Elisabetta Donati and Elisabetta Notarnicola

How beliefs and policy characteristics shape the public acceptability of nutritional policies—A survey study in Germany

Marike Andreas, Anna K. Kaiser, Raenhha Dhami, Vincent Brugger and Falko F. Sniehotta

Public reporting in five health care areas: A comparative content analysis across nine countries

Maxime Sapin, David Ehlig, Alexander Geissler and Justus Vogel

Key stakeholder's attitudes towards the professional accountabilities and responsibilities of newly qualified Pharmacist Independent Prescribers (IPs) in England and enablers to implementation at scale?

Bruce Warner, Tracey Thornley, Claire Anderson and Anthony Avery

Innovations in primary healthcare in Slovenia 2011–2020: Exploring the stepwise process behind effective implementation

Katherine Polin, Giada Scarpetti and Pia Vracko

Public contributions to R&D of medical innovations: A framework for analysis

Claudia Wild, Ozren Sehic, Louise Schmidt and Daniel Fabian

The right to health for socioeconomically disadvantaged TB patients in South Korea: An AAAQ framework analysis

Juyeon Lee, Yeori Park and Myoung-Hee Kim

Policies and strategies to control antimicrobial resistance in livestock production: A comparative analysis of national action plans in European Union Member States

Caetano Luiz Beber, Maurizio Aragrande and Massimo Canali

A historical overview of policy perspectives towards informal care in Taiwan (1996-2023)

Yu-Ching Liu and Chen-Fen Chen

The role of socio-economic determinants in the interregional allocation of healthcare resources: Some insights from the 2023 reform in the Italian NHS

Roberto Fantozzi, Stefania Gabriele and Alberto Zanardi

Immigration of medical personnel from Ukraine to Poland – Context, regulations, and trends

Liudmyla Andriiashenko, Michał Zabdyr-Jamróz, Paweł Lipowski and Alicja Domagała

National COVID-19 plans: Equity is unlikely without public participation and transparency

Alain Braillon

A conceptual framework to assess the health, socioeconomic and environmental burden of chronic kidney disease

Charlotte Johnston-Webber, Isaac Bencomo-Bermudez, George Wharton, Robin van Kessel, Salvatore Barone, Francisco Brotons Muntó, Steven Chadban, Juan Jose Garcia Sanchez, Janwillem W.H. Kocks, Kyra Obolensky, Petra Sandow, Neil Skolnik, Ming-Hui Zhao, Alexei Volaco, David C. Wheeler, Alistair McGuire and Elias Mossialos

Projected costs of long-term care for older people in England: The impacts of housing quality improvements

Bo Hu, Nicola Brimblecombe, Javiera Cartagena-Farias and Wagner Silva-Ribeiro

Could hospitals operating through a value-based healthcare policy overcome potential management drawbacks in European healthcare?

Cristina Caramés, Javier Arcos, Bernadette Pfang, Ion Cristóbal and Juan Antonio Álvaro